• Yes, your pushback is warranted. He does tend to overwork things, painting with large brush strokes. I was thinking that at the end of the presentation he tried to walk things back a bit.

    Yet... Ask most people about their relationship to God and the first thing which comes up is church attendance.

    In the Judgment, Jesus mentions no attendance to the "rituals of worship" - important though they be:

    Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Matthew 25:34 ff.

    Good to see you, Dan. You are busy on many fronts and bringing blessings in the Lord's growing vineyard. in word, deed, and song. Keep up the drum-beat, my brother in Christ.